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“Steel-toed boots, heavy work jeans, and long sleeve shirt. It was hard and exhausting to swim with all that,” Puentes told Hawaii’s KHON, he was out there for a while before getting rescued by the Coast Guard.

After floating for what seemed like hours, Puentes and the rest of the people on board were picked up by the Coast Guard.

Both Puentes and the pilot keep in touch with one another via text message after the traumatic experience.

According to ABC News, one person, a Hawaiian health official, died in the crash. The eight other people on the plane survived.